This blog is designed to familiarize you with a new style of writing and observing/commenting/contemplating our world – wherever we meet it which is every moment.

The style of writing and language you find in

“The Flower Is Meditating – Contemplations Of A Sick Mind On The Way To Enlightenment”

and

“When The Zen Dust Settles – Zen Koans Of A Retired Zen Master”

are often provocative, certainly unconventional, playful and controversial but always within reach of understanding and therefore resulting in more awareness/introspection.

The Freedom of Thought is not everywhere welcome. Often it is violently opposed or ignored. Poetry can be a way of discovering new dimensions of thought and awareness as it can contain many messages otherwise difficult to express. As such the Freedom of Thought is a precious gift not to be sacrificed or to be taken for granted. Only where such freedom exists can we truly communicate with each other as human beings.

You will find a small selection of such inspiring contemplations on this blog, and new ones will be added regularly. Please enjoy and let me know your comments.

There are many flowers
I can compare you to
But I cannot remember any of their names
You may taste like a fresh fig
Or you may smell like jasmine
And you may look like a Burmese princess
But my tears will never dry up
I have met you many times
In another world
Where my love can live freely
Without restraint
Without laughing at herself
Our eyes have never met
Our hands have never touched
And your hair
Has never been kissed by my lips
Do not always hide in politics
Burma is more than that
Not just a place with many tears
Torture and iron bars
Burma is the place of many lost souls
Looking to escape to a citadel of peace
We may never touch each other
But always speak kind words
Across a border with thousands of refugees
And machine gun fire
Killing all the children
Who have come too late
To walk up the steps to lasting peace
When the only place to hide
Is inside a temple
And your precious heart

From “When the Zen Dust Settles – Zen Koans of a retired Zen Master”

v Straight talk by a retired Zen master

v Zen koans you didn’t know existed

v No more hidden Zen secrets and meanings

v Laugh with the master

v Zen will never be the same

v Your life is already a koan

A humorous and hilarious exploration of anti-traditional Zen koans, but not limited to it.

You unexpectedly find yourself in an upside-down position where ordinary concepts of the world of Zen no longer apply. Funny, satirical, cynical, captivating, always inspiring and not to be taken too seriously. You need an open mind to step into the obscure world of a retired Zen Master. There are no secrets, no hidden Zen meanings, no puzzles, no “talking around the bush” but only straightforward truthful dialogues between a Zen Master and his students/devotees. Nothing learnt in Zen before has prepared you for this unique Zen journey. If you have a good sense of humor or like to start one, this book is the perfect travel companion as each koan can lighten or deepen your time in a crowded airport or lead to abrupt laughter in the middle of a bathroom visit.